Students in grades 6 to 12 who are susceptible to smoking [among those who have never tried it]

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
33.3
28.0
21.9
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
32.2
26.3
20.2
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
35.5
29.4
23.2
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
34.5
29.3
24.8
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
29.5
23.7
18.2
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
34.6
33.6
21.9
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
29.0
26.0
17.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
33.8
29.5
24.8
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
29.7
27.5
17.2
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
27.2
24.5
20.1
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
34.2
33.1
18.8
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
29.8
24.2
16.5
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
35.3
34.3
25.4
Dieppe and Memramcook
30.2
23.7
16.2
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
36.7
27.0
31.5
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
27.4
23.3
16.3
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
33.0
28.5
22.0
Fredericton
33.0
27.7
22.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
37.5
22.7
13.3
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
30.2
23.2
19.4
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
47.4
38.4
24.9
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
40.4
26.9
24.3
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
36.5
35.4
27.6
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
35.0
30.4
24.1
Moncton
33.0
25.2
20.1
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
37.5
31.8
26.0
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
23.5
23.0
30.3
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
35.1
24.9
30.7
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
37.8
32.3
27.6
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
41.7
34.5
32.1
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
34.3
30.2
23.9
Riverview and Coverdale
35.3
27.0
22.2
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
36.7
34.2
24.1
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
36.2
28.7
22.8
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
33.4
33.6
28.4
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
27.6
26.5
16.0
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
29.9
24.7
19.9
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
39.0
32.5
23.4
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
33.2
31.4
24.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
34.5
28.7
24.3
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
26.4
24.7
18.4
School districts
Anglophone East School District
34.8
27.9
22.2
Anglophone North School District
36.4
32.5
24.1
Anglophone South School District
35.5
29.5
23.4
Anglophone West School District
35.2
29.2
24.5
Anglophone sector
35.3
29.4
23.5
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
28.4
26.1
18.4
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
28.4
23.2
17.6
District scolaire francophone Sud
28.5
24.5
18.4
Francophone sector
28.4
24.8
18.2
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
32.4
25.7
19.9
Grades 9 to 12
34.0
30.0
23.8
Gender
Woman/Girl
31.7
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
32.4
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
49.3
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
33.7
26.8
n/a
Male
32.6
29.2
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
42.2
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
31.4
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
42.2
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
31.3
n/a
n/a
Race
White
33.6
n/a
n/a
South Asian
26.8
n/a
n/a
Other
34.3
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
30.3
n/a
n/a
Latino
38.2
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
35.1
n/a
n/a
Black
29.4
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
39.5
32.8
28.1
Non-Indigenous
33.0
27.6
21.6
Food poverty
Food poverty
42.6
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
32.6
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
32.0
28.5
n/a
Non-immigrants
33.4
27.9
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
37.5
n/a
n/a
No special need
31.3
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 6 to 12 who are susceptible to smoking [among those who have never tried it]

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is based on respondents who have never tried smoking. This indicator combines the responses to the following 3 questions: 'Do you think in the future you might try smoking cigarettes?', 'If one of your best friends was to offer you a cigarette would you smoke it?' and 'At any time during the next year do you think you will smoke a cigarette?'. The response options to these 3 questions are: 'definitely not, probably not, probably yes and definitley yes'. This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered 'probably not, probably yes or definitley yes' to at least 1 of the 3 questions by the number of respondents who answered all 3 questions.

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

NBHC code

SH_SMOSU_1

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